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Sorry mate, that's on you. Your founding padres even told you that unless you water your tree of liberty you might not keep your republic (paraphrasing Jefferson and Franklin here).

The reason I don't appreciate this framing is that while it contains a kernel of truth (Carney hasn't come out swinging against Israeli policy, and evidently some of his brief government's actions are questionable) it also distorts the truth in several ways.

For example, what does "pro genocide" mean? I would say that Ben Gvir is unambiguously "pro genocide", like the guy wants to go kill all Palestinians. Is that Carney's position? No. Then you have for example the German government that are actively trying their best to refuse to face reality and are therefore functionally pro genocide. Is that Carney's position? No. And since "genocide" is such a signifier of unambiguous evil, is being "pro genocide" just not forcefully being "against genocide", the way that South Africa and Ireland are? In that case for example are, I dunno, ...say, Portugal, or Mexico, or Sweden "pro genocide"?

At the same time, Carney has talked about the territorial integrity of Gaza, putting Palestine and Ukraine (and Canada!) on the same rhetorical space. Is that what a "pro genocide" politician would do? I don't think so.

So, I don't appreciate the framing at all. A phrase like "Carney is pro genocide" is just plain misinformation.

'An election is no time to discuss serious issues'

PP is not interested on "handling" Trump, just capitulating to him.

As a Quebecker, I find the percentage 13.8% of households with food insecurity unacceptable in and of itself.

wow, good job

Is there a source for this? Who's the artist?

Brain-dead PR catastrophe for PC. They could instead have make him the public face of their rewards program. Now they are in the news as the bad guys.

I'm not saying it's not a valid issue. I'm saying it's not an important issue. Different things.

To make it a bit more clear: every technology embodies values, and accepts different kinds of inconveniences or efficiencies as acceptable. For example, the GDPR accepts the nuisance of making everyone accept cookies on every website as acceptable, because data privacy is ranked as more important than that particular nuisance. The ADA makes engineers put ramps everywhere. Annoying to some, useful to others, but the value of accessibility trumps whatever nuisance is cased by the ramps.

Rank your values. What is more important: safety and inclusivity or pee lines? And if you accept the former as a priority, then you can ask, how to best minimize the nuisance of the pee lines without compromising the other more important value. If you value small pee lines as more important than safety and inclusivity, you do the opposite. So there. That's what I mean about "important".

I'm sure there are civil engineers out there who can figure this out. Not worth sacrificing anyone's rights or safety for it.

However, the known record of German institutions cracking down on dissident Jewish voices(*) is a very good indicator of what's going on here. Now, I'm not saying that any of these people are little saints, or that they did nothing questionable, but that there is a systemic bias in Germany against pro-Palestinian activism. Which is the more burning point than counting pennies of the particularities of each individual legal case.

(*) such as Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm and others.

Shame on you.

That's not the logistical nightmare you make it out to be.

I don't want people being attacked in bathrooms period. Men's bathrooms are not supposed to be lawless dens of brutal violence, just places to fucking pee, poop and wash hands.

This is just vandalism.

How do we protect the welfare state from these vandals? It's like terrorism at this point, we need to be beating them every time but just need to win once to cause catastrophic damage.

Surely there is a way to moderate the capacity of any one government to massively undo the work of decades of building up.

Are you asking me to play the role of a search engine for you? 😏

Imagine if the NYT treated Palestinian lives with as much concern.

#notallmen vibes

Can't read German. Is the article about how the group they were allegedly with did things? Because the article I linked to says they were targeted by association.

It really blows my mind. Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm, and also others not mentioned in the article. Who the fuck gave Germany the right to decide who is a good pro-Israel Jew and who is a bad anti-Israel Jew? Germany of all countries, being in the business of labelling Jewish people as acceptable and unacceptable. The fucking nerve on these people.